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That the ARVN withdrawal was not yet a rout was due very largely to U.S. airpower. Day after day, B-52s, F-4 Phantoms and F-100s, flying as many strike sorties for the Lam Son operation alone as they ordinarily stage in all of Indochina, kept the battlefield under incessant barrage. Giant B-52s, used like Phantom jets for close ground support, pursued North Vietnamese soldiers through jungle and elephant grass, dropping their 30,000-lb. bomb loads as close as 600 yards to allied positions. Everywhere ARVN soldiers went, they stumbled upon phalanxes of enemy bodies, or survivors...
Crowded Helicopters. One of the 1st Division's three regiments-the 3rd-returned with only 450 of its original 2,000 men still in fighting condition. For those troops at least, the orderly retreat had become a rout. Choppers that ordinarily accommodate eight men carried 14, some clinging precariously to the helicopter skids. Several lost their holds in mid-air and fell to death; others seemed barely able to hobble, apparently suffering from their days of marching through Laos' jungled mountains. One unconscious soldier had one arm wrapped around a machine-gun mount, while his comrades held...
...given a deadline to adopt no-fault insurance or face imposition of a federal plan. He was overruled by the White House after Presidential Aide Peter Flanigan listened to objections from insurance industry groups against federal insurance standards. "The department was forced not to retreat but into a near rout," complained Richard J. Barber, a former Deputy Assistant Transportation Secretary. Barber, who resigned late last year, directed the 2½-year, $2,000,000 study that was supposed to form the basis for the Administration's recommendations. Barber called the Administration's proposals "a disgraceful sham...
...early stages of the invasion, which began February 8, both Washington and Saigon indicated that the South Vietnam troops intended to stay in Laos until the start of the rainy season around May 1. The spokesman described the rout as a "planned withdrawal being accomplished in accordance with the plan...
...forced to contend with 55 shots in last December's 6-2 loss to the Crimson n Madison Square Garden, and Harvard wasn't even playing very well. Fitzsimmons is Yale's only hope of keeping the score respectable and avoiding a repetition of last year's 9-0 rout in Boston Garden...